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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] waycar internal life
From: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:27:55 -0600
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:15:39 EDT, PSHedgpeth wrote
> I've been gone for a few days and am just catching up...With all of the
> conversation re cupola direction...are you guys saying that waycars 
> were turned to keep one particular end forward...As the kids 
> say..."I don't think so"...whoever heard of turning a waycar...I 
> never ever saw it done and don't know of any time it was ever 
> done....It went one way on the outboud trip and came back the same way....
> 
> Of course you always gave a train "a good rear end"..out of the initial
> terminal...This meant putting a low car right ahead of the waycar as 
> has been mentioned...This is just common sense and good practice.
> 
> Whoever heard of turning a waycar....give me some specifics as to 
> when where and why this was ever done as a regular practice....
> 

At least around 1950, the BNW turn out of Burlington usually turned loco and 
caboose (or the entire outgoing train) at the Washington depot wye . . . 

Recollection from a *very* young age -

Marshall Thayer
Mt. Pleasant, IA

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